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I believe that the Cuban Adjustment Act must be re-examined. -- Marco Rubio
Adjustment? She called that an adjustment? How about I adjust her right out of existence? -- Kim Harrison
The reason we have a Cuban Adjustment Act is because, at the beginning, they [migrants] were fleeing political persecution. -- Marco Rubio
There is no other country that has the Cuban Adjustment Act; that's why it's called the Cuban Adjustment Act and not the Nicaraguan Adjustment Act. -- Jeb Bush
I had to learn to dance for 'The Adjustment Bureau' and it was nearly impossible. I turned up with my knees knocking in my leotard and went home and cried my eyes out. -- Emily Blunt
All biologic phenomena act to adjust: there are no biologic actions other than adjustments. Adjustment is another name for Equilibrium. Equilibrium is the Universal, or that which has nothing external to derange it. -- Charles Fort
How can I justify the Cuban Adjustment Act when there are people coming from Cuba saying that they come - that they have - that they should be treated differently from other migrants? But they're going back to that country. -- Marco Rubio
Adjustment, that synonym for conformity that comes more easily to the modern tongue, is the theme of our swan song, the piper's tune to which we dance on the brink of the abyss, the siren's melody that destroys our senses and paralyzes our wills. -- Robert M. Lindner
Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem. -- Eric Hoffer
Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life. -- Hugh Walpole
I think I'm constantly in a state of adjustment. -- Patti Smith
A racing car is an animal with a thousand adjustments. -- Mario Andretti
Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. -- R. D. Laing
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations. -- Herbert Spencer
The first game of the year is always an in-season adjustment game. -- Tony Romo
I think everyone is born 100 percent ego, and after that it's just adjustment. -- Agnes Martin
Game management, game decisions, adjustments, seeing things during games - it's all important. -- Bill Belichick
In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less. -- Carrie Chapman Catt
When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions. -- John Boyd Orr
There may be some difficulties during a period of adjustment. Specifically, picking up their life again and making their own truly independent decisions. -- Rick Ross
The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception. -- Walter Benjamin
While it is clear that we need to make some adjustments to protect Social Security for the long term, it is disingenuous to say that the trust fund is facing a crisis. -- Carl Levin
Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Jay-Z is as politically correct as some of the politicians. He's safe. There's points when you're acquiring financing, you make adjustments. He's made those adjustments. It's his choice. For me, it's not a necessity. -- Curtis Jackson
On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable. -- Emma Goldman
My view is that marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. That's the position I've had for some time, and I don't intend to make any adjustments at this point... Or ever, by the way. -- Mitt Romney
A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings. -- James Allen
Some times you lose more than you win. It's about handling losses and trying to turn them into positives. You get out into the big leagues and there's a period of adjustment to be made. You've got to handle it. -- Lindsay Davenport
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Of course, running a coalition government in a country like India is a difficult task. More so when Congress leads the coalition, since most of the political parties were anti-Congress. To have a coalition, to run a coalition government, you require a lot of adjustments, a lot of flexibility. -- Pranab Mukherjee
My grandson Sam Saunders has been playing golf since he could hold a club and I spent a lot of time with him over the years. Like my father taught me, I showed him the fundamentals of the game and helped him make adjustments as he and his game matured over the years. -- Arnold Palmer
If you don't have the confidence in baking, commit to making the recipe three times. The first two, do it exactly the way I've told you to make it. Twice. The first time you'll screw it up. The second time it will come out pretty good, and then the third time, make your adjustments. -- Tom Douglas
Parenting is the hardest thing I have ever done. I tried to find the balance between the strict, traditional Chinese way I was raised, which I think can be too harsh, and what I see as a tendency in the West to be too permissive and indulgent. If I could do it all again, I would, with some adjustments. -- Amy Chua
Cooking is the art of adjustment. -- Jacques Pepin
...the change was adjustment without improvement. -- Toni Morrison
Life is a continuous process of adjustment. -- Indira Gandhi
Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment. -- Powell Clayton
Growing old is partly an inescapable process of accommodation and adjustment. -- Kathe Kollwitz
Pure morality is only an instinctive adjustment which the soul makes. -- D. H. Lawrence
My biggest adjustment has been learning not to be afraid to fail. -- Johnny Damon
Moving pictures have become one of the greatest revitalizing forces in race adjustment. -- Oscar Micheaux
The biggest adjustment from the minors was learning to spend $45 in meal money. -- Andy Van Slyke
I've very critical of myself, and film has been an adjustment for me. -- Paul Giamatti
It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
Insanity is a perfectly natural adjustment to a totally unnatural and negative environment. -- R. D. Laing
I'm a small-town guy, and moving to a huge city might be an adjustment. -- Adam Dunn
[T]he merciful adjustment which nature makes when what cannot be cured must be endured. -- Margaret Mitchell
Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge. -- John Boyd Orr
Illness is often a sign that you need to make an adjustment in your life path. -- Christiane Northrup
The whole process of mental adjustment and atunement can be summed up in one word: Gratitude -- Wallace D. Wattles
Divorce isn't just the person, it's everything that goes with it - your kids, the adjustment, everything. -- Peter Andre
Identification makes general sanity and complete adjustment impossible. Training in non-identity plays a therapeutic role with adults. -- Alfred Korzybski
When someone who's always been in your life is gone, it's a stunning adjustment of your own identity. -- Bill Ayers
All men desire their own perfect adjustment, but they desire it, being finite men, on their own terms. -- Walter Lippmann
The smallest change in perspective can transform a life. What tiny attitude adjustment might turn your world around? -- Oprah Winfrey
Macroeconomic adjustment programmes are tailor-made to the situation of the country concerned and no models or templates are used. -- Jeroen Dijsselbloem
The learned tradition is not concerned with truth, but with the learned adjustment of learned statements of antecedent learned people. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Perhaps adjustment and stabilization, while good because it cuts your pain, is also bad because development towards a higher ideal ceases? -- Abraham Maslow
It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
I always have an adjustment period where I'm so happy to be home, but then my sense of purpose is totally gone. -- Paul Dano
There's no performance where I never have to think about setting up a phrase or making a technical adjustment while I'm performing. -- Renee Fleming
My mother tries to explain that I need support and that I'm just going through a period of adjustment. "Like puberty," she says. -- S.G. Browne
Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole." -- Leon Battista Alberti
In my view, [the trade deficit] will create political turmoil at some point...Pretty soon, I think there will be a big adjustment. -- Warren Buffett
A good hurdler has to be completely familiar with everything that goes on so if something happens he can automatically make an adjustment. -- Rod Milburn
Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole. -- Leon Battista Alberti
One thing we do know about the threat of climate change is that the cost of adjustment only grows the longer it's left unaddressed. -- Jay Weatherill
I broke two knuckles in my right hand when I gave Jean-Claude Van Damme an attitude adjustment. I got nothing except a medical bill. -- Chuck Zito
Start going to bed earlier! It is a tough adjustment when you have had a summer of staying up late and waking up late. -- Bella Thorne
Beauty is the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole. -- Leon Battista Alberti
In many societies the domestic social costs of adjustment to changing patterns of comparative advantage are believed to outweigh the advantages of further trade liberalization. -- Robert Gilpin
Know that the most neurotic, most ugly situation is simply testing you. It is testing capacity, beyond his control, your flexibility, your adjustment and your character. -- Harbhajan Singh Yogi
Those who follow the Tao are of clear mind. They do not load their mind with anxieties and are flexible in their adjustment to external conditions. -- Zhuangzi
Much as soldiers come back, they've been in combat or the edge of it and suddenly that adjustment back to civilian life is a real challenge. -- Mark Dayton
It's a big change for a country boy like me, to be in the limelight in New York City. It was most definitely a tough adjustment. -- Brandon Jacobs
The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance. -- E. B. White
The finest flowers are those transplanted, for transplanting means difficulty, a readjusting to new conditions, and through the effort put forth to find adjustment does the plant progress. -- Elbert Hubbard
The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I think every time you work with another collaborator, there's an adjustment process where you figure out the other person's strengths, and that has definitely happened for me. -- Gene Luen Yang
I think 99 percent of women's lib comes from technology making different kinds of lives possible, and then the social adjustment follows the technology - it doesn't precede it. -- Lois McMaster Bujold
Discipline does not mean suppression and control, nor is it adjustment to a pattern or ideology. It means a mind that sees 'what is' and learns from 'what was'. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
The degree of leverage now being reversed is staggering, and the underlying global imbalances - notably between the savers and the spenders - will require long and painful adjustment. -- Vince Cable
Ours must be the first age whose great goal, on a nonmaterial plane, is not fulfillment but adjustment; and perhaps just such a goal has served as maladjustment's weapon. -- Louis Kronenberger
If you play it straight it's funny - the best comedy is always played straight down the middle. The adjustment is understanding from the screenplay that a moment is hilarious. -- Tom Hiddleston
If adjustment is necessary, it should be made primarily with regard to the position the homosexual occupies in present-day society, and society should more often be treated than the homosexual. -- Harry Benjamin
The more the government intervenes to delay the market's adjustment, the longer and more grueling the depression will be, and the more difficult will be the road to complete recovery. -- Murray Rothbard
It is a big adjustment but I've always loved that old saying of Jack Nicklaus: 'I retired from golf to go to work.' That sums it up for me. -- Greg Rusedski
A weakness of the random-walk model lies in its assumption of instantaneous adjustment, whereas the information impelling a stock market toward its "intrinsic value" gradually becomes disseminated throughout the market place. -- Richard Arnold Epstein
Instead of imposing your will on every situation...focus on including everyone else, and just that little adjustment of attitude gives you the space to understand where and who you are. -- Wynton Marsalis
To try to cure unemployment by inflation rather than by adjustment of specific wage-rates is like trying to adjust the piano to the stool rather than the stool to the piano. -- Henry Hazlitt
Words are one of our chief means of adjusting to all the situations of life. The better control we have over words, the more successful our adjustment is likely to be. -- Bergen Evans
Potomac School proved to be my first big adjustment - one that helped me with a basic lesson of growing up: learning to get along in whatever world one is deposited. -- Katharine Graham
If the adjustment made by a court can be accepted or not, it will be refused whenever the men can gain more by continuing the strike, with whatever of violence that involves. -- John Bates Clark
I stuck out like a sore thumb when I came on, just by the fact that I looked so different. I think that adjustment for the audience was a hurdle for me. -- Elisabeth Rohm
It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour. -- Charles Dickens
I went and got a tire tool out of my truck, and straightened him out as cold as a block of ice. It was an attitude adjustment, and it'll work every time. -- Hank Williams, Jr.
Five coordinating mechanisms seem to explain the fundamental ways in which organizations coordinate their work: mutual adjustment, direct supervision, standardization of work processes, standardization of work outputs, and standardization of worker skills. -- Henry Mintzberg
Marriage is a big adjustment for anyone - male or female. There is no guarantee that a person who has become set in his or her ways can successfully make that transition. -- Jeanne Phillips
To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it. -- Irving Babbitt
But that constant adjustment and adaptation to your new environment, all the variables are the same. There's always a promoter, there's always a rider, there's always a shower, and there's always a stage. -- Feist
My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try to transform that into a vocal, there was very little adjustment. -- Yanni
Some words, you know, it's amazing but some words would come only in French, and when I speak French, it would only come in English. And so the adjustment is very difficult sometimes. -- Juliette Binoche
Art is not a plaything, but a necessity, and its essence, form, is not a decorative adjustment, but a cup into which life can be poured and lifted to the lips and be tasted. -- Rebecca West
There is no term comparable to green thumbs to apply to such a mechanic, but there should be. For there are men who can look, listen, tap, make an adjustment, and a machine works. -- John Steinbeck
Life in a great society, or for that matter in a small, is a web of tangled relations of all sorts, whose adjustment so that it may be endurable is an extraordinarily troublesome matter. -- Learned Hand
To attain individual morality in an age demanding social morality, to pride one's self on the results of personal effort when the time demands social adjustment, is utterly to fail to apprehend the situation. -- Jane Addams
continuing sexual interest and perfect sexual adjustment between partners who have been together for thirty years is so difficult and rare that no one should feel guilty or inadequate for not having managed it. -- Germaine Greer
The injured runner is like a recent amputee victim, continually forgetting that the limb isn't there, crestfallen at each realization. What we need more than anything is a suitable prosthetic and an attitude adjustment. -- Lauren Fleshman
For young people today things move so fast there is no problem of adjustment. Before you can adjust to A, B has appeared leading C by the hand, and with D in the distance. -- Louis Kronenberger
When I first went from a band situation to a solo situation, it was quite an adjustment to make. But after having done it for a number of years, it really feels good out there. -- Roger McGuinn
The human organism inherits so delicate an adjustment to climate that, in spite of man's boasted ability to live anywhere, the strain of the frozen North eliminates the more nervous and active types of mind. -- Ellsworth Huntington
The human body has been designed to resist an infinite number of changes and attacks brought about by its environment. The secret of good health lies in successful adjustment to changing stresses on the body. -- Harry Johnson
The criterion of mental health is not one of individual adjustment to a given social order, but a universal one, valid for all men, of giving a satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. -- Erich Fromm

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